Martin Group, a global provider of enterprise-wide communications solutions, next generation engineering, and consulting services, has announced today that David P. McClure, President & CEO for US Internet Industry Association, will deliver the keynote address at Martin Group’s 2009 User Meeting and Technology Conference—Revenue 360—being held September 8-11, 2009 in Austin, Texas. (more…)
TM Forum, the world’s premier industry group focused on business effectiveness for the communications and media sectors, announced the launch of a Certified Compliance Testing program. The new program offers reassurance to communications service providers seeking to future-proof their IT architecture through use of TM Forum’s proven and flexible set of Solution Frameworks (NGOSS). (more…)
cVidya Networks, a leading provider of Revenue Assurance and Dealer Management solutions, announced today the findings of a recently released Revenue Assurance Maturity Survey conducted by the TM Forum. (more…)
VOSS, nominated a Cool Vendor in Unified Communications (UC) by Gartner, and a leader in UC service delivery software, today announced that its Middle East customer, UAE’s integrated telecom service provider ‘du’, has won the prestigious 2009 Global Telecoms Business Innovation Award, for the implementation of a state of the art UC service delivery platform (UC SDP). The award was received by Samer Geissah, Vice President, Core Network, on behalf of du. (more…)
Elisa Corporation (HEL: Elisa A), Finland’s leading provider of wireless, wireline, broadband Internet and cable TV services, and Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), the leading provider of customer experience systems, has signed a six-year managed services and billing consolidation agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Amdocs will immediately assume responsibility for day-to-day management and maintenance of the Amdocs billing, ordering and customer relationship management (CRM) software that was originally deployed in 2007 to support Elisa’s wireless operations. (more…)
Martin Group, a global provider of enterprise-wide telecommunications solutions, next generation engineering, and consulting services, announced that Howard Gorter, Staff Engineer, is a registered Professional Engineer (PE) in South Dakota and Tennessee. Professional registration in other Eastern states served by Martin Group’s new Nashville office is in progress. (more…)
HP (NYSE: HPQ) and Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) have signed a relationship agreement establishing both parties’ intent to form a 10-year global alliance to help customers leverage the convergence of telecommunication and IT. (more…)
Intec, a global provider of business and operations support systems (BSS/OSS) has been selected by Benin Telecoms, Benin’s incumbent telecommunications operator, to deploy Intec’s market-leading InterconnecT billing and Total Service Mediation settlement solutions. The implementation will ensure best-in-class operations to deliver a superior customer experience, while preventing revenue leakage and securing increased revenue streams. (more…)
TM Forum, the world’s premier industry group focused on business effectiveness for the communications and media sectors, has recently announced availability of its latest Business Benchmarking performance study report. One of the Revenue Assurance Maturity Model Survey’s major findings is that Mobile operators are the most mature in their approaches to revenue assurance. In addition, the report finds that Service Providers around the world are rapidly adopting the TM Forum Revenue Assurance Maturity Model and its principles. (more…)
FTS (LSE: FTS), a global provider of billing, CRM and business-control solutions for communications, content and service providers, has announced that Cbeyond, a provider of advanced communications and IT solutions to small businesses, has deployed FTS Leap RevChain v 7.1, an advanced billing, rating and customer-care solution. (more…)
Polystar OSIX, a supplier of OSS/BSS solutions, has become self-certified as a Global Roaming Quality (GRQ) Monitoring Provider under an initiative developed by GSMA, the global trade association for the mobile communications industry. (more…)
MetraTech won the Best Overall prize at the prestigious World BSS Awards. The award was presented to two companies, MetraTech and Oracle Corporation, at a ceremony during IIR’s BSS Summit 2009 in Amsterdam from June 8-11, 2009. (more…)
Comverse has announced that Sotelco, a new Cambodian mobile operator, has launched the Comverse® ONE™ Billing and Active Customer Management™ solution to support prepaid and postpaid subscribers and roll out bundled multi-play service offerings. (more…)
Theta Networks has released a solution for monitoring, analyzing and optimizing subscribers’ data traffic over mobile networks called Bro@dMAX. The solution is designed to help operators address the growth of Mobile Broadband. (more…)
Comverse has received the 2009 Telecom BSS Vendor of the Year award for Asia Pacific from Frost & Sullivan. This is the fifth consecutive year that Comverse has been awarded this honour, which recognises the most outstanding telecom solutions vendor in the BSS (Business Support Systems) segment in Asia Pacific. (more…)
TM Forum, the world’s premier industry group focused on business effectiveness for the communications and media sectors, has confirmed that the second in a series of TM Forum Regional Spotlights - focusing on business issues in Latin America and solution case studies - will be held at the Marriott Plaza Hotel Buenos Aires on Monday June 22, 2009. The Spotlight will be jointly hosted with Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), a leading provider of customer experience systems. (more…)
Sicap is officially celebrating the opening of its office in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire today, with its mobile operator and service provider guests. The event confirms the strength of its partnerships in the region. (more…)
TM Forum, the world’s premier industry group focused on business effectiveness for the communications and media sectors, has recently announced a new report and Webinar called “Strategic Transformation For the Digital Economy: Tuning Your Business To the 21st Century.” The June 16th Webinar will launch the new report— the first in a series of TM Forum Insights reports. (more…)
Prof. Janusz Filipiak, Founder and CEO of Comarch, a global business solution provider, employing over 3500 people worldwide, will hold a presentation on “Driving Successful Business Models in the NGN Environment” during the 15th Annual International Conference of “Telekommarkt Europa”, organized by Handelsblatt on the 17th and 18th of June in Düsseldorf, Germany. (more…)
Transverse, a leader in providing high-quality, low-cost, carrier-grade business support systems (BSS), has introduced blee(p) On Demand, the Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery option of their Business Logic Execution Environment Platform or blee(p). blee(p) is the industry’s first commercially supported carrier-grade open source BSS solution for communication service providers. (more…)
Deutsche Telekom is aiming to restructure its business and drive up revenue from growth areas through investments in intelligent networks and its portfolio of IT, Internet and network services.
SAN JOSE, Calif., and CHICAGO -- Cisco today announced that Neutral Tandem -- a leading provider of tandem interconnection services to wireless, wireline, cable and broadband telephony companies -- has selected the Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers to support its new Ethernet eXchange service.
Verizon Communications filed a complaint against Cablevision Systems on Tuesday, alleging that it infringed its patented technology for television set-top boxes, the U.S. International Trade Commission said.
Internet service could get a lot faster for a lot more users-- if Congress agrees with the Federal Communications Commission.
March 16 -- Dean Garfield, chief executive officer of the Information Technology Industry Council, talks with Bloomberg's Lori Rothman and Mark Crumpton about the U.S. plan to expand Internet service.
Almost 40 percent of BlackBerry users would switch camp to an Apple iPhone , a recent study into smartphone brand loyalty shows.
A cable TV spokeswoman says preview clips for adult programming appeared on two channels dedicated for kids in North Carolina because of an "equipment failure." Time Warner Cable Inc.
Rackspace Session at Cloud Expo Cloud Expo sponsor Rackspace Hosting , the world's leader in the hosting and cloud computing industry, on Tuesday announced from SXSW 2010 the launch of Rackspace Media Services.
Federal prosecutors are objecting to former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio's request to not be present in court when he is given a new sentence.
Telstra has sold 1 billion euros worth of 10-year bonds with a coupon rate of 4.25 per cent per annum, maturing on March 23, 2020.
Combining a sleek, stylish look, advanced multimedia features and the best-in-class push-to-talk services of Nextel Direct Connect , Sprint announced availability of Motorola i890 on the Nextel National Network.
Israel-based telecommunications company Partner Communications Co. said Monday that Moody's Investors Service downgraded the company's corporate family rating one notch to "Ba1." The rating is now non-investment grade, also known as "junk." Its previous rating was "Baa3," which is investment grade.
Monday, March 15, 2010 at 1:02 p.m. Read more: National , Business , U.S. Broadband Policy , Federal Communications Commission , Broadband Plan , TV Stations , Frequencies WASHINGTON a ' Communications regulators are unveiling a sweeping proposal to overhaul U.S. broadband policy.
Dramatically increasing Internet speeds to 25 times the current average is one of the myriad goals to be unveiled in the National Broadband Plan by the the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday a Some details of the plan have trickled out in the last few weeks including how to find spectrum to meet an anticipated explosion of handset devices ...
From the Announcement Today, the Federal Communications Commission launched new digital tools - the Consumer Broadband Test and the Broadband Dead Zone Report - that allow consumers to test their broadband service and report areas where broadband is not available.
